I suspect some of the contradiction comes from whether you're measuring views per video or ad revenue per month. If one youtuber produced a 32-minute video per

I suspect some of the contradiction comes from whether you're measuring views per video or ad revenue per month. If one youtuber produced a 32-minute video per month and got 500,000 views while another produced eight 4-minute videos per month and averaged 200,000 views per video, who do you suppose gets the most ad money? I'd wager the latter.